The future has arrived

摘要

Agreement is unanimous. Critical care experts repeatedly maintain that point-of-care ultrasound education should be incorporated into critical care training cur-riculums. However, interest is currently growing beyond the pace of implementation. Basic critical care ultrasound training to develop level 1 competency has been previously outlined to include a comprehensive program incorporating workshops, diverse didactic approaches, hands-on training, case-log maintenance, trainee diagnostic assessment, and expert supervised interpretation (1). Recently, a widely endorsed, large multinational expert panel from the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine agreed on a similar framework of principles to use in the implementation of ICU ultrasound training programs (2). In the meantime, other consensus statements from the American College of Chest Physicians, the American Society of Echo-cardiography (ASE), and the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) have suggested similar reasonable minimum standards for point-of-care ultrasound (3,4).